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Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 03:44:37 +0000
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM, EBo <ebo@sandien.com> wrote:

> That's how I break it, but I thought it had to do with overwriting
> programs while running them.

Interesting, but I doubt that's it. Reason being that I can also drive
it to destruction by doing a very large tar pipeline or HG commit.

But what occurred to me is the common thread: lots of I/O to the file system.

Maybe it's as simple as a buffer overflow in devfs-posix.c?

ron